Customer attacks employee with meat: Brunswick Police Blotter

Assault, Center Road: An employee at Giant Eagle pressed assault charges against a customer at 10:56 a.m. Feb. 8. The customer threw two special-cut steak filets at the employee in response to the employee allegedly making derogatory comments toward the suspect’s husband. The suspect was cited and released with a court summons.

Suspicious vehicle, Old Eagle Drive: Police investigated a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of Fairhill Apartments at 4:07 a.m. Feb. 13. The driver was found to have outstanding warrants from the Brooklyn and Parma police departments. Adderall and Oxycodone pills, an unidentified white powder, and an open container of alcohol were found inside the car. The driver was turned over to Brooklyn Police, but he left a suspected crack pipe in the backseat of the Brunswick cruiser. The pipe was being tested for drugs at the time of the report.

Shoplifting, Pearl Road: A woman returned to a CVS store twice in the same night Feb. 12, stealing items from the store on each occasions. She was confronted by store employees in the second incident, at 7 p.m. The woman fled the store and got into her car, but the car did not start. She then fled on foot and was caught by police a short time later. She was found to have outstanding warrants out of the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department for failing to appear in court on original charges of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, drug abuse, and traffic offences. When jailed by Brunswick Police, she reportedly defaced her jail cell wall with a bar of soap.

Drunken driver, I-71/Center Road: Police responded to several calls of a car that had driven off the side of the Interstate 71 northbound ramp at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 11. The owner of the car was found in the passenger seat when police arrived. He said he had been too drunk to drive and his friend had driven him home before crashing the car. The friend had allegedly fled the scene on foot. Police found no prints in the fresh snow around the car to support the car owner’s claim. He failed field sobriety tests, refused a breath test, and was arrested for OVI.

Theft, Center Road: A Brunswick High School student reported his wallet stolen from his jeans pocket some time between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. Jan. 28 while his clothes were in a locker at the school.

Criminal damaging, Hemlock Court: A resident found the word “dead” painted on his apartment door and glue inside the door lock when he returned home at 7 p.m. Feb. 9. Police had no suspects at the time of the report.

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